OAKLAND, California, July 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Releases Turnitin Originality Checking and GradeMark Services
for German Speakers in the European Union and Global Markets

Turnitin, the leader in originality checking and plagiarism prevention,
today announced availability of its award-winning Turnitin Originality
Checking and GradeMark services in the German language. To date, the company
has working relationships with dozens of educational institutions in European
Union countries with significant populations of German-speaking students
including Germany, Austria, Belgium and Switzerland. Worldwide, Turnitin and
GradeMark are used in over 108 countries.

"This is in response to the strong demand for our award-winning services
to institutions worldwide," said Dr. John Barrie, PhD, founder and CEO of
iParadigms, the creator of Turnitin. "Turnitin and GradeMark have helped
millions of English-speaking students across all disciplines become better
writers and increase originality, while protecting their work from
unauthorized copying." More info is available at turnitin.com, or in German
at: http://turnitin.com/index_i18n.html?lang=de

Interested parties in the European Union may contact James Thorley of
nLearning (sales@nlearning.co.uk or press@nlearning.co.uk) for more
information.

About iParadigms LLC

Turnitin is a service of iParadigms LLC, the leader in textual
intellectual property protection and a pioneer of web-based services for
collaborative, online educational support. The company is at the forefront of
using technology to increase awareness of best practices in teaching and
learning as it relates to the use of other people's textual content. Turnitin
is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by
millions of students and faculty and thousands of institutions in more than
100 countries.

About nLearning

nLearning (www.nlearning.co.uk) is a leading provider of consulting and
software services for academic integrity in Europe, supporting the adoption
of Turnitin in over 650 academic institutions (including 97% of UK
universities). Established in 2002, nLearning promotes a holistic approach to
addressing plagiarism, through a combination of ethics, engineering and
enforcement. The nLearning advisory and training service,
PlagiarismAdvice.org, offers consultancy and guidance for institutions and
national government bodies. Much of the material produced is subsequently
available at no cost to the community from our PlagiarismAdvice.org website,
and at our biennial international conference on plagiarism prevention
(www.plagiarismconference.com).